50+ Useful jQuery CSS3 Loading & Progress Bar Tutorials

jQuery css3 loading & progress bars animated become quite popular lately, and there are lots of plugins that can help you add one to your site. But how do you make one yourself? The problem is that there are plenty of implementations already, so in those tutorials, we are going to code something different – that have built in progress loading bar animation.

This is a collection of loading and progress bar spinners animated with CSS3 jQuery. Each spinner consists of a single div with a class of ‘loader’ and content text of Loading. The text is for screen readers and can be used as a fallback state for older browsers. The aim of this project was to create a set of minimal loading spinners that are visually appealing and also convey their intended meaning.

A strict limit of one element per loader (not including pseudo-elements) was placed on this project based on the belief that something as simple as a loader doesn’t deserve more. Each loader is given a font size in pixels and all other sizes are in ems so to change the size of a loader, just adjust the font-size.

Buttons With Built-in Progress Meters

How to Create a Circular Progress Button

A tutorial on how to implement the circular progress button concept by Colin Garven. We are using the SVG line drawing animation technique as described by Jake Archibald to animate the circular progress and provide a success and error state to indicate the final status.

Quick Tip: Add a Progress Bar to Your Site

In this quick tip, we will use the new NProgress jQuery plugin to add a progress bar to a web page. If you’d like to learn more, keep reading! NProgress is a jQuery plugin that shows an interactive progress bar on the top of your page, inspired by the one on YouTube. It consists of a global object – NProgress which holds a number of methods that you can call to advance the progress bar.

Pace automatic web page progress bar

pace.js and a CSS theme of your choice, and you get a beautiful progress indicator for your page load and ajax navigation. Pace will automatically monitor your Ajax requests, event loop lag, document ready state and elements on your page to decide on the progress.

ProgressJs for loading pictures

ProgressJs is a JavaScript and CSS3 library which helps developers create and manage progress bars for any object on the page. You can design your own template for progress bars or simply customize them.

You can use ProgressJs to show the progress of loading contents (images, videos, etc.) on the page to the users. It can be used on all elements including textboxes, textareas or even the whole body.

Animated Progress Bar in 4 lines of jQuery

Progress bars are really useful to indicate to user that something happens and when it will be approximately done. They are useful on page where assets should be preloaded before page is shown to user. That’s why is important that progress bar code is light weight so it can be loaded really fast at the start.

CSS loading Animation Generator

CanvasLoader Creator

The Heartcode CanvasLoader Creator is a free online tool which you can use to generate scripted preloaders (spinners or throbblers) for your HTML projects. The Creator is using the CanvasLoader UI Library.

Bouncy Animated Loading Animation

Sonic – looping loaders

Sonic is a small (~3k minified) JS “class” you can use to create custom loading animations. It works best with looping animations — i.e. a snake that’s trying to eat its own tail.

Sonic uses the HTML5 <canvas> element/API. It works by drawing a shape (by default a 6px square) at tiny intervals along a pre-defined path. You can define the path using the functions: arc, bezier and line.

Animated Goal Progress Bar jQuery plugin

This plugin allows you to create an animated progress bar using jQuery. Just fill in the required input and the plugin calculates the progress of your goal and animates the bar. You can specify text to put before and after the amount raised.

You are welcome to download the plugin and use it in your personal projects provided that you leave the credits in the source code.

Progress Button Styles

A set of flat and 3D progress button styles where the button itself serves as a progress indicator. 3D styles are used for showing the progress indication on one side of the button while rotating the button in perspective.

Circular Progress

Angular-loading-bar

The idea is simple: Add a loading bar / progress bar whenever an XHR request goes out in angular. Multiple requests within the same time period get bundled together such that each response increments the progress bar by the appropriate amount.

This is mostly cool because you simply include it in your app, and it works. There’s no complicated setup, and no need to maintain the state of the loading bar; it’s all handled automatically by the interceptor.

Form Progress Bar

Sparkle Progress Bars

List Bar-Graph Styles

Multiple Progress bar/Loader

Progress bar profile completion

Using a progress element for a profile completion bar. Added click states to see desired behavior; in the wild the user would click a “save” or “next” button which would animate the progress bar accordingly.

HTML Progress Bar

css Skill bars

CSS3 progress bar

Skill Bar Animation with jQuery & CSS3

The skill bar gives you an opportunity to show visitors to your site how qualified you and your teams are. Add a skill title, percentage of proficiency, and a color (hex value). It’s a quick and colorful way to showcase your knowledge about you and your team.